TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Overview
- Default Shipping
- Free shipping
- Free shipping from the Shopping Cart
- Shipping on additional products
- Local Pick Up
- Weight based shipping
- Number of shipping policies per product
- Points to note when naming your shipping policies:
- Drop Shipping
Overview
This article will help to explain what types of shipping policies/set up are available to Sellers on Trade Me.
All products listed on Trade Me will require a shipping policy. See below for some of the options.
Default Shipping
Set your products up to charge a flat rate for all products e.g All products are shipped for $5 using a courier.
Free shipping
Set your products up to have free shipping where you do not charge the buyer anything for shipping.
Free shipping from the Shopping Cart
You have the option to make shipping for orders added to the shopping cart free if it meets certain criteria - either an item amount or a dollar value. We ask that you set this only once. If you wish to run promotions and free shipping offers you can still do this via Trade Runner. See this FAQ for more information
Shipping on additional products
If a buyer purchases 2 or more of a product you can choose whether to charge shipping for each item or to only charge shipping once.
Local Pick Up
You have the ability to offer the following options:
- No pick up - this is the default which means that the product will always be shipped.
- Buyer can pick up - the buyer has the option to either pick it up from one location or it can be shipped.
- Buyer must pick up - the buyer can only pick this up product up. e.g if its a bulky item you don't want to send. Use this with a product group to define those products that must be picked up.
Weight based shipping
Using Product Groups in Trade Runner, you can create groups of products based on weight then have a shipping policy for those products. For example:
| Weight | Shipping Policy |
| Less than 1kg | $0 - Free |
| Between 1kg and 3kg | $9.95 |
| 3kg or more | $19.95 |
You can also have different multiple policies for each weight, for example:
| Weight | Shipping Policy |
| Less than 1kg | Standard - Free Express - $4.95 Same day Auckland $9.95 |
| Between 1kg and 3kg | Standard - $9.95 Express - $19.95 |
| 3kg or more | Standard - $19.95 Express - $29.95 |
See how to set up weight based shipping for further instructions.
Note that you will need to provide at least one default shipping policy that doesn't have a product group defined otherwise you will see the warning "Please define a default shipping method" on the dashboard. The default shipping method acts as a catch-all for products that do not fall into one of the defined groups.
For example, if your shipping groups were set up as follows:
...in this case what happens for items that are >1kg or have no weight value assigned? The answer is that they would not list because there is no defined shipping policy for them.
To overcome this, there needs to be a default shipping method available to catch these products, as shown here:
Number of shipping policies per product
You can have up to 10 different shipping policies per product on Trade Me.
For example you may want to offer the following options with different costs associated:
- Standard
- Express within Auckland
- Express Nationwide
- Rural delivery with Signature
- etc
Points to note when naming your shipping policies:
- Max length of policy name is 50 characters
- Must not contain $ symbol
Drop Shipping
- If you drop ship any or all products, you must be approved by Trade Me. Apply here.